Liverpool thread 2019/20

[idahoblues]

Luckily don’t have to live near any cult members, can only imagine the vitriol going around
Hahhahahahahahaah

 

[Bluekiwi]

So the scousers cannot break our 100 points record - after they lost today Klopp said they weren't motivated by records. I suggest he looks back a few weeks and reviews the press interviews with some of his players who stated they wanted to smash our records.
When he first arrived in the country I thought he was a decent manager - how that opinion has changed these past few years.

 

[cheekybids]

What did Klopp say, the tweets deleted?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Any suggestion that group of players didn’t want to break, or match, our record is comical and spectacularly fails to grasp the psychology of leading sports professionals, especially those within a team competing in a league over the course of a season. To be part of demonstrably the best squad In a particular era (arguably of all time) is something every self-respecting team-sports professional must aspire to; to suggest otherwise is absurd. Alongside ability and hard work, that is why they became elite athletes. The will to win and be the best. It’s the same reason every sprinter wants to beat Usain Bolt’s record as well as winning Olympic gold - preferably both at the same time.

Despite the mental gymnastics that have been going on since the final whistle last night, does anyone seriously doubt the level and extent of white noise from press and supporters alike if they’d matched or surpassed 100 points - the narrative about them being the greatest team ever already being set in certain quarters in January ffs. The desperation of some to call this team great when the season was barely over half way through was telling. Great teams retain titles, because great teams have the mental strength to do so. They manage to overcome the innate tendency in humans to lose their hunger once they reach the summit and can enjoy the views. Great teams push on to break records once the race is won, because they are winners; and because a great team is a winning team - in every sense of the word. Great teams also want to win every competition they are in.

Doubtless in time, the script will morph into enforced break preventing them breaking 100 points, but the truth is they were dead on their feet before the pause button was pressed on the season. They were done, mentally and physically before the clocks went forward. All the great sides of recent years have delivered when it really matters, at the business end of the season, when the pressure (internal and external) is at its most acute, when trophies AND records are being pursued.

They are a good side, they are a very good side, but with no meaningful record to cling onto this season (other than breaking their club’s title drought, which is doubtless noteworthy) they can only possibly be considered great if they retain their title next season.

Maybe they will, and if so, fair enough, but until they do the suggestion they deserve to rank along the great sides of the modern era is one that can only be held by someone suffering from a defect of the mind.

 

[blueish swede]

So, they’re basically a Leicester.

 

[Breadsnapper]

Have they got 100 points yet?

 

[Dirty Harry]

Reminds me of playing 'Snakes and Ladders' as a kid, the one where you'd get right near to finishing, and you'd land on the snake on or around 99 and it would take you allllllllll the way down to near the start again, bet they must be feeling like that right now, so close, so close and yet so far ;-) .​

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

On the WhatsApp group I’m on with some lads I play football with although don’t know them that well. One Liverpool fan claiming they are aiming to finish on 96 points as it will be a fitting tribute to those who lost their lives in Hillsborough for it to be their title winning defence.

So tempted to put it would be a more fitting tribute if you get relegated next season on 39 points for the ones you killed in Heysal.

However I think that might be escalating things a bit quickly

Throwing him the old Chelsea curve ball?

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Still not arsed?? :-)

Hand on heart - not remotely bothered matey.

Any records they achieve / could have achieved are irrelevant with the 3 month holiday.

#Thismeansless

Come next season with a title on the line and I will be all over them yet again............ ;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Is it me or does feel like liverpool have been relagated rather then winning the premier league? They seem so angry rather than joyful after winning the league after 30 years. Why are they so obsessed with City?

Well that can't be right - we are not remotely important enough to be obsessed about remember..........